Understand what makes work a "project", what a project manager actually does day to day, the phases of the project lifecycle (initiation → planning → execution → monitoring → closing), and the triple constraint of scope, time, and cost.

Turn an idea into a plan: define goals and requirements, set and control scope, break work down with a WBS, estimate effort and duration, and build a realistic schedule with milestones and dependencies.

Lead delivery day to day: motivate and coordinate the team, manage stakeholders and expectations, communicate clearly, run effective standups and status meetings, and use tools like Jira, Trello, and Asana to track work.

Keep projects on track: identify and mitigate risks, build and track a budget, manage quality and acceptance criteria, and handle scope changes with a clear change-control process.

Work the modern way: the Agile mindset and values, Scrum roles/events/artifacts (Product Owner, Scrum Master, sprints, backlog, daily scrum, review, retrospective), Kanban flow, and how to choose between them.